BAND 8A SPECIALIST PHARMACIST

Job Description:

To provide a highquality clinical pharmacy service as part of the multidisciplinary team to medical specialties patients to ensure maximum efficacy safety and economic drug use and to demonstrate professional accountability to enhance patient care. The responsibilities will include:

• Regular attendance of consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Demonstration of expert clinical knowledge
• To make clinical decisions where limited/conflicting information is available.
• To ensure compliance with local policies including medicines policy formulary and microbiology guidelines. To challenge prescribing practices where necessary.
• Promotion of high quality and costeffective prescribing.
• To be the main pharmacy contact for a designated area in Medicine or Medical specialties including acute medicine rheumatology respiratory dermatology or immunology.
• Development and review of Patient Group Directions
• Development and review of Shared Care guidelines
• Implementation of relevant local and national guidelines within the specialist area
• Assist in the implementation and evaluation of Drug Usage Reviews and clinical audits and implement changes in prescribing practice accordingly.
• To liaise and work with other specialist pharmacists to share the best practice to strengthen patient focused pharmaceutical care.
• To assist in the planning and organizing of a clinical pharmacy service to acute medicine and medical specialties to patients in our service in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
• To qualify as an independent prescriber and where appropriate to improve patient care and safety to continue to develop the role of pharmacist independent prescriber within a designated clinical area.
• To provide clinical screening and dispensing support to the Medicine pharmacy team and medical satellite to ensure the accurate and timely dispensing of prescriptions. To assist with the timely screening and checking of discharge prescriptions.
• To provide medicines management reviews for complex patients.
• To liaise with doctors administration staff and patients to ensure the safe and smooth running of the home delivery service.
• To deal effectively with situations where medication errors have occurred including liaising directly with patients and staff concerned.
• Assist in responding to complaints from patients and the public in relation to medicines management issues as required.

Remote Work :

No